biostudies-literatureUnknown15Swarbrick CJ<h4>Background</h4>Older surgical patients who develop medical problems are commonly referred to medical teams, which can be proactive physician-led teams or through reactive referral to the on-call medical registrar.<h4>Methods</h4>A cross-sectional survey of on-call medical registrars who received referrals from surgical teams was conducted in March-June 2022 at 140 NHS hospitals. It focused on the workload derived from referrals of older surgical patients to on-call medical registrars, excluding referrals to existing services such as perioperative medicine, orthogeriatric, or medical specialty teams. To minimise recall bias, completion of the survey was encouraged regardless of whether a registrar had received a referral. The aim of this survey was to estimate the unplanned, acute worklBJA open100394https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12490704biostudies-literatureA survey of the workload generated by older surgical patients referred to on-call medical registrars-SNAP-3.PMC12490704Agrawal SMaguire SBailey CChandler BWilliams KTrajkovic SWilson HSundaram VClark AWilliams ATaylor NShort ATaylor HGautam NMaxwell MTownley ZTaylor AKakodkar PPatel MHunter KSloan BHilton-Christie SWalker JSange MHughes AEdgar JHui JLankester KSeturaman RHartford-Beynon JSNAP-3 collaboratorsPuranik SPemberton OHolmwood XLawton SGrani EGilfillan HChamberlain AVaitheeswaran SJakkampudi SPreedy CHamilton DStrachan AWhite SDay JHamilton PBolton TKurvey ABhatia RRetief JJhugursing MDudas GRawat SMckinlay SPritchard DCromarty EMckinlay JWhite EKant ABradbury CJemmett KKubiszpudelko APurnell RBampoe SHaldar MSivanandan SAlcorn SStewart RGreenlee HMcallister TWerrett GChalakova PRamkumar AMurdoch HLaloe PSimpson JKnight JHandapangoda HFeatherstone KGarvey GDuraisamy KMcLoughlin LMartindale SMandalia RHavalda PBansal SSalmon KFactor DAgarwal SThorburn PPhull MVizcaychipi MFord RPrasad NBrett MGoddard ABlackman DHowell SSira HSaunders DVerma GSpeirs ENariani JGarg SSandbach PCarter EHowell MHempenstall KFerranti PPetkov SMurray KSchwiebert COborska AMoloney DMacgregor MEvans BGratrix ADana EKakkar MFernandes MBarnes RParker AJones MPoulton TJones PPilsbury JSpencer RHewson DReschreiter HFong AYap WLUlhaq AGohil BChaurasia SMoppett IKGreamspet MDrake JAkioyame MCope SPitchiah AJordan LCraig VPavlakovic LMagham SCoakley MBurton HAli AJohnson ESharp LBallantyne TBloor MKhan AASwarbrick CJYeung JCrooks REl-Boghdadly KKing CRamsden FPeach LMalik MBaumber RKnowlden PShah ALim DGregory TRatnasingham ABangash MAnderson CMarghade PRimmer CPartridge JSLRamsaran RfalseA survey of the workload generated by older surgical patients referred to on-call medical registrars-SNAP-3.<h4>Background</h4>Older surgical patients who develop medical problems are commonly referred to medical teams, which can be proactive physician-led teams or through reactive referral to the on-call medical registrar.<h4>Methods</h4>A cross-sectional survey of on-call medical registrars who received referrals from surgical teams was conducted in March-June 2022 at 140 NHS hospitals. It focused on the workload derived from referrals of older surgical patients to on-call medical registrars, excluding referrals to existing services such as perioperative medicine, orthogeriatric, or medical specialty teams. To minimise recall bias, completion of the survey was encouraged regardless of whether a registrar had received a referral. The aim of this survey was to estimate the unplanned, acute workl2025-01-01T00:00:00Z2025 Sep2026-06-04T05:04:10.616Z2026-06-03T03:07:35.384ZS-EPMC124907044104942310.1016/j.bjao.2025.100394